The Industrial Giant Reborn

"Old Gu, in fact, you also understand that although I will try my best to help AMC get more American markets, Japanese, German and other American cars are all competing, and it is impossible for us to grow to the same level as other giants in the United States. , so the domestic side is the new market that I value the most. Except for some of the most core technologies of AMC that we need to own, we can consider introducing the others into the country." Chen Zhiwen added.

AMC is not the top car in the United States. The technology it possesses is basically not very powerful or unique. In addition, Huami has a good relationship at present, so there are no technical restrictions, because there is no such high-end technology.

"Okay, I understand." Gu Dehua nodded, and said, "Sedan cars are actually the biggest market. Unfortunately, the domestic side seems to look down on AMC's car technology and is unwilling to introduce our cars."

"It's normal. They are all importing foreign brands. If you are a high-level executive in the domestic auto industry, do you want to introduce Volkswagen Toyota GM, or an unknown brand car as the main car in the country in the future?" Chen Zhiwen said with a helpless smile and shook his head.

On the domestic side, although the automobile industry is poor, it also has great requirements for partners. As the main car type defined in China in the future, if a joint venture brand is to be introduced, a big brand must be introduced.

AMC's cars are naturally inferior to Toyota and Volkswagen. After all, it is only a small regional brand. If Chen Zhiwen hadn't acquired it, no one in China would have heard of AMC.

However, the jeep owned by AMC is very special. It has always been the king in this field. Although it is only a small market segment, it is still very practical and has a certain domestic demand, so it is naturally introduced.

The fundamental reason why he was willing to acquire AMC at the beginning was for the Jeep brand. In fact, other AMC models have no special features at all, and can only barely survive. Even in the original history, when Chrysler acquired AMC in 1987, it was also for the Jeep brand. After Chrysler's acquisition, Li Iacocca scrapped AMC's various car models in a short period of time, leaving only Jeep.

Let AMC's cars come in, the domestic side has no willingness at all, and we can't force it. First, the Jeep project will be done well. As long as some parts are successfully localized in a few years, and the domestic demand becomes higher, the domestic demand may increase. Will agree to reintroduce AMC's sedan line.

"That's the only way to go." Gu Dehua nodded and said, he naturally knew the weakness of his own car technology.

The most important thing to come to Yanjing this time is to reach a cooperation in the automobile field, and the others are just side details.

Cooperation plans with China, foreign exchange balance policies, joint research and development of new models, localization of parts and other issues are difficult for other auto giants to solve, because they care about every cent they may be able to earn Money, I want to try my best to ensure that I can make more profits in this cooperation, and the domestic side is naturally the same, to protect my own interests and foreign exchange, so every negotiation is tense, and various demands make it difficult for the other party , In addition, Volkswagen is a listed company, and internal disputes are relatively large, so it is difficult to reach a unified opinion.

But Chen Zhiwen has a completely different idea. Faced with a trillion-dollar market in the next 50 years, he doesn't care how much he can earn in the next ten years, or even lose money. It is totally worthwhile to be able to successfully enter this market at the earliest time.

Besides, Hutchison is about to invest a large number of factories in Yanjing City. These factories can be selected by AMC and Hutchison in the future, and their development potential must be extremely strong. As long as there are a few companies that can become small auto parts giants in the future, This investment is a bloody profit. One more point, the current locations of these factories are all in Yanjing City. In the future, the land alone will not make Hutchison lose money.

Therefore, no matter how you look at it, this is a mutually beneficial multi-plan cooperation. After a few years, the van with high cost performance will come out, which will definitely become a hit, and it can also increase domestic economic development, and even its terminal retail in Southeast Asia. The system can also introduce such practical models suitable for poor countries.

In the next few days, Chen Zhiwen rejected all the local officials who wanted to talk about cooperation. They were all small projects. Chen Zhiwen sent them to find Hehuang's office in Yanjing. Hehuang will become the vanguard of his domestic investment in the future. Hutchison can invest in companies with potential in the fields of home appliances, electronics, automobiles, and infrastructure.

However, the only exception is naturally his uncle. Chen Tianshou personally went out to introduce the current situation of domestic agricultural canned food exports to Chen Zhiwen, and thus obtained tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars in new investment. However, these are only intentions and will be handed over to Chen Zhiwen in the future. People from Galaxy Trade came to follow up.

On the last day in Yanjing City, Chen Zhiwen met with a big leader again, but he didn't say anything about cooperation, but chatted casually about the domestic economic development, and Chen Zhiwen also gave some opinions of his own.

On the 2nd and 22nd, Chen Zhiwen left Yanjing and went to Shanghai. However, he did not choose his own private jet, but chose to take the train, which is the most profound green leather train in the memory of the post-80s. Taking this opportunity, let's take a look at the domestic landscape and the general situation in some rural areas.

The Ministry of Railways also received an order from its superiors to prepare a high-class carriage for Chen Zhiwen, and hung it in the middle of a train heading to Shanghai.

The total length of this carriage is not as good as that of a normal carriage, and the interior is not considered luxurious, but it has air conditioning, a refrigerator, and a diesel generator at the rear of the carriage to provide power for the carriage. I later learned that this carriage is from a famous Canadian company. It was purchased by a company called Bombardier. Chen Zhiwen has also heard of this company. It is good at manufacturing motorcycles, trains, rail transit, and private jets. However, due to technical issues, the current small private jets are far inferior to decades later, so they are not considered.

The speed of the green leather train is very slow, but this also meets Chen Zhiwen's requirements. He himself is looking at the scenery. He has a camera in his hand and has taken many good photos. One of them seems to have taken a picture of a tiger in the woods , but because it is too vague, it is somewhat uncertain.

This era is basically the last time when South China tigers may exist in the wild, and they will become extinct in the wild in the future. Otherwise, a photo of a fake wild South China tiger in future generations would not be widely known by the public.

After two days and three nights, the train arrived at Shanghai Stock Exchange.

The Shanghai Stock Exchange sent relevant cadres from the municipal government to welcome them, and there were also high-level Red Bull officials from the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

"Mr. Chen, hello, I'm Zhang Youwei, secretary of Shanghai Stock Exchange Committee, welcome to Shanghai Stock Exchange." A middle-aged man about 40 years old shook hands politely and smiled.

"Secretary Zhang, hello." Chen Zhiwen also shook his hand back.

"Mr. Chen, let me introduce you." Zhang Youwei smiled and introduced the local officials who came to greet Chen Zhiwen.

This time, coming to Shanghai, like Yanjing, is a low-key act. Therefore, Shanghai has sent the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, the Director of the Bureau of Commerce and others.

The train station is obviously not a suitable place to talk. This large group of people are all important people. No matter how low-key they are, there are still a lot of security forces. The gathering of so many people will naturally attract attention, and it will also lead to the crowding of the already crowded train station. more crowded. Therefore, after the courtesy process was completed, everyone left quickly.

It was already afternoon, so he did not go to the city hall, but to his residence in Shanghai: the Peace Hotel.

Different from the embarrassing situation in other cities where there are often no suitable hotels for foreigners to live in, Shanghai, as a big city with a century of development, had a large number of Western-type hotels as early as the Republic of China. There are many differences in foreign hotels, but basically there is no problem in using them. Foreign tourists or business people can also get used to these hotels.

The Peace Hotel is also the hotel that is most likely to appear in Shanghai Bund TV dramas in the later Republic of China. During the Republic of China, it was also the most prosperous foreign hotel.

Chen Zhiwen lived in a suite on the highest floor of the Peace Hotel. Standing here, he could see the Huangpu River and many other scenes of Shanghai. arrive.

Currently in Shanghai, the Peace Hotel can be said to be one of the tallest buildings, but it is only 77 meters. If you build an office building or a hotel here, it can become the tallest hotel in Shanghai.

"Chen Sheng, this is your first time in Shanghai, right?" Hu Yingxiang from Hehe Industry sat opposite Chen Zhiwen in a Western-style restaurant in the Peace Hotel, and said while drinking coffee.

"Yes, it is indeed the first time." Chen Zhiwen nodded and said. In the previous life, he had naturally been to the Shanghai Stock Exchange many times in the economic center of the later life, but in this life, it was the first time. In his initial layout, Yanjing is the first stop. This is because the redevelopment has just started, and large investments require special approval from the central government. Therefore, it may be more convenient to invest in the vicinity of Yanjing first.

However, going to the Shanghai stock market, as the future economic center, is naturally worthy of a large investment. However, in recent years, there have been no major projects to cooperate with. Because of the Yangtze River waterway, the Shanghai-Nanjing Expressway, which is currently the most worthwhile investment, is still under the central government's control. There is no will to build.

Naturally, investment can be made in the industry, and factories can be built anywhere. However, Midea's current production capacity is limited. The priority is Shekou, which can build factories with sole proprietorship, and Yanjing City, the center of ZZ. Red Bull originally planned to invest in building a food and beverage factory in Shekou, but the investment recruiters from the Shanghai Stock Exchange went to Hong Kong to find Red Bull’s executives and offered to help Red Bull’s products enter the domestic market. Go to Shanghai to build this new factory.

This time I came to Shanghai for this purpose.

"I have been here a few times in Shanghai. The resort project we talked about in Hong Kong before has been approved in Shanghai. It is located on the side of the Huangpu River. It is 600 meters long and wide. 350 meters, I plan to build 260 villas with different national atmospheres here. There will also be more than a dozen restaurants with different tastes inside, plus independent swimming pools, gymnasiums, coffee shops, etc. After the design department confirms the design, the drawings will be ready. It will come out, and I will see it more clearly." Hu Yingxiang pointed to the opposite bank of the Yangtze River, diagonally opposite.

"Okay, you are an expert in this area, basically I won't have any problems." Chen Zhiwen looked at the location in the direction, nodded and said.

It is located on the bank of the Yangtze River. This location is definitely the golden location in gold. The hotel was also a blood-earned hotel in the 1980s. Although the average domestic economy is relatively poor, the consumption power at the top of the pyramid is extremely impressive, especially here in Shanghai. , the economic and industrial center of the Yangtze River Delta, and it will also be a place where a large number of foreign tourists gather. The hotel will never lack customers, and it can earn money in foreign exchange or RMB.

"Chen Sheng, you are being polite. Your real estate investment in Hong Kong is much better than mine. As you expected, Hong Kong's housing market has started to have problems recently." Hu Yingxiang said with a smile.

"I can only make a general judgment. The real operation still depends on professionals." Chen Zhiwen shrugged and said. There has been a fluctuating trend in land use, ups and downs, without the previous strong curve of rising all the way, only commercial land, the price is still rising.

The logic here is very simple. The price of industrial land is determined by the local land price plus the profits of industrial exports. When the local land price has doubled, the latter is almost dead. A large number of factories will either go to the mainland or go to China. The cost of labor has been lowered in the Gulf or Southeast Asia, because of the explosion of the electronics industry led by Midea, which has eased a little, but the trend is still not good.

Residential land, although there is a lot of speculation capital inside, still needs to rely on normal people to take over. When a large number of normal people's income is far from keeping up with housing prices, problems will naturally appear in the market. The only exception is commercial land, because now Hong Kong has become a platform for capital from all over the world to enter the country. At the same time, the country also needs to rely on Hong Kong to cooperate with foreign countries. The demand for commercial land is extremely high, and the rent in Central still rises sharply every year and remains stable. commercial land prices.

"Talents like this are the biggest players in the real estate market." Hu Yingxiang smiled and said, "However, Chen Sheng's current status in the industrial field is even more enviable."

"Hehe Industrial is also very good at present. I heard that last year's turnover exceeded 100 million, right?" Chen Zhiwen said with a light smile. As early as 1977, Chen Zhiwen let Hu Yingxiang invest in industrial factories to become Midea's suppliers. achieved.

"Yes, and we are ready to invest together with Yanjing City in Shekou, and continue to follow Midea." Hu Yingxiang said.

"That's pretty good. In the future, as long as you grow bigger, your achievements in this area will definitely not be lower than real estate." Chen Zhiwen said.

"I hope so. In this way, I can also provide a large number of jobs for the country for a long time." Hu Yingxiang nodded, and said: "Chen Sheng, there is one more thing. The few times I have come to Shanghai, the leaders of Shanghai I also hope that I can invest in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. I inspected several times and decided to invest in two large-scale infrastructure projects in the Shanghai Stock Exchange. One is to build a large-scale thermal power station in the SJ area, and the other is to build a cross-river project on the Yangtze River. Bridge."